Excerpt from Episode 9 - "Lighter Than
Fast."
"Excuse me, I want to
come in", said the handsome stranger, ignoring all the rules of space,
such as that which said if you didn't wear a helmet in deep space you'd die.
Ignoring all the rules of
space-flight, especially the one that said you shouldn't open a door in deep
space on a Monday evening, they opened the door and let the handsome stranger
in.
"Sorry about that, but
I'm late, you see. I've got to save the planet Galgatron." He sounded like
Alec Guinness with constipation.
"But I've already done
that! And I didn't get a big hairy thing called a Koowy! What's your
problem?"
"Oh, hold on, that's the
other episode, isn't it?" came the startled reply from a man who was
startled.
"What, you mean the first
episode?"
"Yes, the forth
episode."
"The fourth
episode?"
"That's the first
episode."
"So you're in the first
episode?"
"Yes. The fourth
one."
"Wod?"
"Actually, that means I
don't exist yet. Oh, hang on a minute. Yes I do. I'm just a lot older than I am
now." With that he aged before their eyes. "Then I'm going to die,
and then I'll be young again and start getting older. But if you kill me I will
only grow stronger. I think."
"Ah", said
everybody, nodding their heads sagely, as they did from thyme to thyme.
See also:
- Extract 1 from The Captain Disaster Collection
- Extract 2 from The Captain Disaster Collection
- Extract 3 from The Captain Disaster Collection
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